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Speaker 1: morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, July fourth.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
Speaker 3: Holmes. Yes, Walmart is open today on the fourth of July.
Speaker 3: So it's Target, so it's home depot home. So is
Speaker 3: Low's all those retailers stay open. They're taking advantage. So
Speaker 3: I'm saying this now because I wake up every morning
Speaker 3: I look at Google trends, and one of the top
Speaker 3: trends was that question. Is Walmart opened on the fourth
Speaker 3: of July.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, now everyone knows it is, indeed, but your.
Speaker 3: Mail ain't coming today, so know that. But happy forth
Speaker 3: to you wherever you may be. But should you actually
Speaker 3: be celebrating our nation's independence two days ago? Turns out
Speaker 3: government paperwork has even been a problem as far back
Speaker 3: as seventeen seventy six. This is my favorite story of
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: Ro Yes, some things never change, but actually some really
Speaker 1: interesting bits of information in that. Also, we have a
Speaker 1: new Congressional record for the longest House speech ever, all
Speaker 1: in an attempt to delay President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 1: It may have been delayed, but it still passed. Trump
Speaker 1: has a signing party later today.
Speaker 3: Also, the Supreme Court is taking up the issue of
Speaker 3: transgender athletes competing in women and girls sports. Also, eighteen
Speaker 3: people shot, four killed in a mass shooting in Chicago
Speaker 3: and the gunman still on the loose this morning.
Speaker 1: Plus one of Diddy's jurors is speaking out defending the
Speaker 1: jury's deliberation process and its verdict. Plus fame apparently does
Speaker 1: not protect you from deportation. Mexican boxer Julio Caesar Chavez
Speaker 1: Junior has been arrested for overstaying his visa.
Speaker 3: And we've lost Michael Manson, iconic actor with that raspy voice,
Speaker 3: that tough guy he starred in nearly every Quentin Tarantino film.
Speaker 3: He has passed away suddenly at the age of sixty seven. Also,
Speaker 3: it turns out the rumors were true. Confirmation now from
Speaker 3: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom that they have ended their
Speaker 3: nine year relationship. I hated to hear that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always said here, but it looks like they
Speaker 1: are parting ways amicably, and I guess that's the best
Speaker 1: you can hope for with a.
Speaker 2: Split like that. We do begin our run on this
Speaker 2: fourth of.
Speaker 1: July with a happy second of July, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: really have the same ring to it as happy fourth
Speaker 1: of July. But the second might actually be the day
Speaker 1: we are supposed to be celebrating our country's independence.
Speaker 2: This is a really fun story that you dug up.
Speaker 3: We went through school. I am forty seven and I
Speaker 3: just learned this fact about this nation's history. Yes, why
Speaker 3: in the world with the second of July be our
Speaker 3: actual independence day? Because July second, seventeen seventy six is
Speaker 3: when the Continental Congress officially voted on that resolution to
Speaker 3: decline independence from Britain. This happened after a month long debate.
Speaker 3: They voted unanimously to declare our independence. In fact, John
Speaker 3: Adams famously wrote to his wife the next day, on
Speaker 3: July third, saying this, and I quote, the second day
Speaker 3: of July seventeen seventy six will be the most memorable
Speaker 3: epic in the history of America. I am apt to
Speaker 3: believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as
Speaker 3: the Great Anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with
Speaker 3: pomp and parade, games, sports guns, bells, bonfires, illuminations from
Speaker 3: one end of the continent to the other from this
Speaker 3: time forward forever more robes. He kind of got it
Speaker 3: right immediately, it just got the date wrong, got the
Speaker 3: date wrong. He was wrong about which day we would
Speaker 3: choose to do all that. But I thought it was
Speaker 3: fascinating that he nailed it the very next day, that
Speaker 3: this is going to be the biggest day in this
Speaker 3: place's history. But we decided to do it on the
Speaker 3: fourth and stay.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that was from John Adams the second day
Speaker 1: of July seventeen seventy six. He predicted this country would
Speaker 1: forever celebrate its independence day. Yeah, just on the wrong day.
Speaker 1: So if even he thought July second should be the
Speaker 1: country's true anniversary day, what happened that we now celebrate
Speaker 1: on July fourth instead?
Speaker 2: In a word, paperwork, this is too good.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Continental Congress passed the resolution declaring independence on
Speaker 3: July second, but the accompanying paperwork that went along with
Speaker 3: the new resolution was not ready yet, namely, yes, the
Speaker 3: actual declaration of independence. They were putting some finishing touches
Speaker 3: on the exact language and the public declaration that was
Speaker 3: going to go out to the world.
Speaker 1: That language and that document, the declaration of Independence did
Speaker 1: not get wrapped up until July fourth, So when news
Speaker 1: spread about independence and the document made the rounds, the
Speaker 1: date of July fourth was affixed to the top of
Speaker 1: the document and the rest is history.
Speaker 3: Boom, there you have it. July seconecond is the country's
Speaker 3: actual official birthday. But even the government was running behind
Speaker 3: him paperwork back then when we first first started. So
Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2: It was very cool.
Speaker 3: One of the little interesting. Not Tom Tom Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 3: John Adams, very important to our declaration of independence. Both
Speaker 3: of them died on July fourth.
Speaker 2: That's wild, right, Yeah, a little, a little creepy, Yeah, strange.
Speaker 3: I did a deep die. I was. I was deep
Speaker 3: into my history. Today. Schoolhouse rocketed today. We continue, though,
Speaker 3: on the run, on this fourth of July. Look, wee
Speaker 3: robe sweet, We're not. We don't tend to be rude people.
Speaker 3: We give everybody a break, that's right. We never want
Speaker 3: to necessarily criticize. So it would be rude of us
Speaker 3: if we were to say that the House Minority leader,
Speaker 3: A Keen Jeffries talks too damn much. We would never
Speaker 3: say something like that. However, he did just talk longer
Speaker 3: than anybody in the history of the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1: The Louisiana congressman spoke for eight hours and forty five
Speaker 1: four minutes yesterday during debate over the President's Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 1: It was part of Democrats effort to delay passage of
Speaker 1: Trump's legislative package. Jeffries beat the previous record of Republican
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. He said that in twenty twenty one with
Speaker 1: eight and a half hours. So yeah, he did it
Speaker 1: by an extra fourteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Not everybody can do this as a special procedural rule
Speaker 3: they have that's called the Magic minute, which everybody else
Speaker 3: is supposed to get just a minute, but the leaders
Speaker 3: get as much time as they want. So he stretched
Speaker 3: this out to eight hours forty four minutes. I'm sure
Speaker 3: Corey Booker was smiling somewhere, wasn't he. Yes, Now, the
Speaker 3: speech was only a delay tactic because it was delaying
Speaker 3: the inevitable. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill was ultimately approved a
Speaker 3: short time after Jeffrey's marathon speech, the vote to eighteen
Speaker 3: to fourteen. The president is scheduled to sign it at
Speaker 3: a Fourth of July celebrations supposed to happen today at
Speaker 3: around five o'clock Eastern time.
Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, it looks like
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court will settle one of the most debated,
Speaker 1: often heated, and often emotional issues of our day. Should
Speaker 1: transgender athletes be allowed to compete on women's and girls' teams?
Speaker 3: The Justices have agreed to take up a case in
Speaker 3: which trans athletes are challenging state laws that ban them
Speaker 3: from competing. The athletes won in lower courts who ruled
Speaker 3: that the students' rights were being violated. The Supreme Court
Speaker 3: will hear the case in their next term in October.
Speaker 3: The decision that not expected to be heard until next year. Now,
Speaker 3: we mentioned this is a case involving two states, but
Speaker 3: we have about two dozen states that have such laws
Speaker 3: that ban trans athletes from competing on women's and girls teams.
Speaker 3: So this is going to have countrywide implications.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a debate that needs to have some resolution
Speaker 1: to it because it just keeps going on and on
Speaker 1: and on. All right, Next up on the run, we're
Speaker 1: going to head to Chicago, where there was a late
Speaker 1: night mass shooting.
Speaker 2: It happened around eleven pm.
Speaker 1: Four people were killed, fourteen others injured after a vehicle
Speaker 1: pulled up and opened fire on a crowd that was
Speaker 1: leaving a nightclub hosting an album release party for a
Speaker 1: local Yeah.
Speaker 3: Chicago police superintend to call the act deplorable and cowardly,
Speaker 3: saying they didn't care who was struck and in a
Speaker 3: matter of seconds they were able to shoot eighteen people.
Speaker 3: Police believe the venue was targeted, but they aren't sure
Speaker 3: if any specific person was targeted. Two men two women,
Speaker 3: all in their twenties, were killed.
Speaker 1: And four of the fourteen people who were wounded have
Speaker 1: been hospitalized and are in critical condition this morning. So yes, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: several people still fighting for their lives. The vehicle fled
Speaker 1: the scene immediately after opening fire, and so far, no
Speaker 1: one has been taken into custody. Chicago's mayor said they
Speaker 1: will not rest until there is full accountability, but the
Speaker 1: police who were on the scene described it as one
Speaker 1: of the worst scenes they've ever seen in their life.
Speaker 1: It was chaotic, there was blood everywhere, people were screaming it.
Speaker 1: They just described it as just a horror show.
Speaker 3: And I'll ask if you know, because I didn't see it.
Speaker 3: In my read, is it they're just looking for a
Speaker 3: lone gunman.
Speaker 2: They didn't specify.
Speaker 1: I mean, someone was driving, and it seems like someone
Speaker 1: was had some sort of assault rifle to be able
Speaker 1: to shoot that many people that quickly.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, we continue on this fourth of July.
Speaker 3: Run now with one of the jurors from the Diddy
Speaker 3: trial has spoken. Didn't say much though, but didn't want
Speaker 3: to let another moment go by rhades because the jury
Speaker 3: is now being I guess in some circles criticized soundly
Speaker 3: for the decision they made. So yes, this juror didn't
Speaker 3: say a whole lot, didn't want to be identified, but
Speaker 3: did want to defend that jury. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The juror said they heard a legal expert suggest that
Speaker 1: Diddy's celebrity influenced their verdict, and the juror said that
Speaker 1: was highly insulting and belittling to the jury and the
Speaker 1: deliberation process.
Speaker 3: That's fair. Well, you say, if you just went through
Speaker 3: all this for eight weeks or whatever and put in
Speaker 3: this work and somebody's telling you, oh, you just caught
Speaker 3: up in celebrity, that is an insult.
Speaker 2: It's offensive.
Speaker 3: Yes, went on to say this as well. We spent
Speaker 3: over two days deliberating our decision was based solely on
Speaker 3: the evidence presented and how the law is stated. We
Speaker 3: would have treated any defended in the same manner, regardless
Speaker 3: of who they are. I have nothing else to say
Speaker 3: and quote.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could feel the annoyance in that juror's voice,
Speaker 1: even though we couldn't hear it.
Speaker 2: I just I have nothing else to say. Boom, Mike drop.
Speaker 3: This wasn't a sit down interview.
Speaker 1: No, this is probably like a rogue call and just
Speaker 1: got a little angry and said something maybe they didn't
Speaker 1: mean to say.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: An alternate jurornamed George, also spoke to a few news outlets,
Speaker 1: and although he was not a part of the deliberation process,
Speaker 1: he told reporters that he understood the verdict. He said,
Speaker 1: reading all of my notes and looking back at the evidence,
Speaker 1: I probably would have reached the same conclusion as the
Speaker 1: other jurors.
Speaker 2: So backing up the jury's decision.
Speaker 3: We are really all of us are fascinated to hear
Speaker 3: about the jury and what happened in that jury room.
Speaker 3: There is something about the statement that the juror put out.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. For some we're so used to just
Speaker 3: reading we saw nothing from the courtroom. So this goes
Speaker 3: in line with what we've been doing. I kind of
Speaker 3: appreciate it, not seeing or hearing the voice, just having
Speaker 3: to imagine, yes, and just reading the words.
Speaker 1: Again, right, because I said you could hear it in
Speaker 1: his voice. Wait, no, we didn't hear it in his voice,
Speaker 1: but I heard it in my head. I heard and
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it was a he They
Speaker 1: it's true. I heard a voice in my head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the normal one. All right, folks, stay with
Speaker 3: us here on this fourth of July run when we
Speaker 3: come back. A beloved actor we have lost now, Michael
Speaker 3: Mattson has died suddenly. Also, a Mexican boxer was fighting
Speaker 3: on Saturday. However, the government says he should have been
Speaker 3: deported on Friday. Also coming up on this day. They
Speaker 3: have confirmed what the rumors have been saying. But we're
Speaker 3: sad about another Hollywood brick up. All right, folks, we
Speaker 3: continue on this happy Independence Day, which should have been
Speaker 3: two days ago, by the way. No, we continue on
Speaker 3: our fourth of July run here now with a famous
Speaker 3: Mexican boxer with a very famous name, who just fought
Speaker 3: in a very high profile fight last Semeaturday is being deported.
Speaker 1: Julio Caesar Chavez Junior has been detained by ICE after
Speaker 1: Homeland Security says it determined he's been in the country
Speaker 1: illegally and has warrants for his arrest back in Mexico
Speaker 1: for having cartel ties. The DHS statement described him as
Speaker 1: a prominent Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien.
Speaker 3: Yes, he was very prominent just last Saturday because he
Speaker 3: fought and lost to influencer Jake Paul in front of
Speaker 3: a sold out arena in Anaheim. Now. Chavez is a
Speaker 3: former world champion and the son of Julio Caesar Chavez,
Speaker 3: perhaps the most popular, revered, and beloved athlete in Mexico. Ever,
Speaker 3: he has undeniably one of the most famous names in
Speaker 3: all of Mexico. Chavez his family says he's innocent. His
Speaker 3: lawyer called his arrest another attempt to terrorize the Latin community.
Speaker 3: But he does have a home there in southern California,
Speaker 3: in the La area where where the fight was in
Speaker 3: southern California. But yeah, dozens of a couple dozen officers
Speaker 3: went to his house, picked him up, and they are sending.
Speaker 2: Him mild You know, I don't know all the rules.
Speaker 1: I've never known that, but I thought perhaps if you
Speaker 1: were working here, you had a home here, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be in a situation where you'd have to be deported.
Speaker 3: But all I could think about was if they say
Speaker 3: they found out a day before the fight that he
Speaker 3: was supposed to be deported, what would have happened if
Speaker 3: the fight would have been called off? Those millions wow
Speaker 3: on the line for this. But it's moving forward, all right.
Speaker 1: It's next up on the run. We have lost an
Speaker 1: iconic actor who's face I know you know so well.
Speaker 1: Actor Michael Madson has passed and suddenly at the age
Speaker 1: of sixty seven. He was best known for his work
Speaker 1: in Quentin Tarantino films, playing the sadistic mister Blonde and
Speaker 1: reservoir Dogs.
Speaker 3: Who can Forget?
Speaker 1: Who can forget? The cutting off of the ear? His
Speaker 1: character did that Mister Blonde. He also had starring roles
Speaker 1: and kill Bill, Once Upon a Light, Sorry, Once upon
Speaker 1: a Time in Hollywood, Wyatt, Irb, Donnie Brasco, just to
Speaker 1: name a few.
Speaker 2: I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3: Him in Donne Brasco because he played a very famous mobster,
Speaker 3: Sunny Black. But he could pull off these roles. He's
Speaker 3: well known for his ability to portray a menacing character.
Speaker 3: He is not a warm, cuddly guy. I don't even
Speaker 3: remember seeing him play a dad in a film.
Speaker 1: He was a dad, I can't. He was a love
Speaker 1: interest in thlmon Luise who He's had a couple.
Speaker 2: Yes, I saw that. That's not shocking to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, But he once told a reporter of this, Nobody
Speaker 3: wants to put me in a suit and a tie
Speaker 3: and have me sitting in office. Let alone give me
Speaker 3: love scenes. People are a lot more comfortable when I
Speaker 3: have a cigarette in my mouth and a gun in
Speaker 3: my hand.
Speaker 2: I saw that quote and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought it just summed up nearly every character we've
Speaker 1: seen him play.
Speaker 3: And there are just some guys who are menacing. There's
Speaker 3: some well there's not an insult, and some guys embrace it.
Speaker 3: But Madson was one of those guys. But he was
Speaker 3: found unresponsive at his Malible home yesterday morning. Is Publish
Speaker 3: Is later confirmed he died from cardiac arrest.
Speaker 1: Oh so sad and listen to this, he was, Oh this,
Speaker 1: this really this chokes me up.
Speaker 2: He was still working and working hard. He had eighteen
Speaker 2: projects in the works.
Speaker 1: While right before he died, his repsit he was actually
Speaker 1: really looking forward to this next chapter of his life.
Speaker 2: He had a new book.
Speaker 1: He has a new book that's set to hit bookshelves
Speaker 1: in September called Tears for My Father, Outlaw Thoughts and Poems.
Speaker 1: He survived by his wife and two of his children,
Speaker 1: along with his sister. I didn't realize this was his sister,
Speaker 1: actor Virginia Madsen, who we love Candy Man and it
Speaker 1: is so good.
Speaker 2: In that movie. But yeah, I didn't realize they were
Speaker 2: brother and sister. They were siblings.
Speaker 3: And then now when you see their faces together, you.
Speaker 2: Go, oh, I see it.
Speaker 3: Yep. But we have seen he had so much work.
Speaker 3: We've stopped. There have been a few b movies he's
Speaker 3: been in, like some stuff on the Sci Fi Channel
Speaker 3: or something like that, and yeah, you know, this don't
Speaker 3: have the same production budgets or whatever. But then he
Speaker 3: shows up on screen and we keep watching, Oh, okay,
Speaker 3: he's here, We're good. We know he legitimized. Yes, he
Speaker 3: immediately legitimizes, So that's we don't have to go back
Speaker 3: and watch rether Pardo.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's a rough movie, but.
Speaker 3: I'm all right. Final leg of our run here and
Speaker 3: look sad news for some of us observers on the outside.
Speaker 3: Who knows, this might be the absolute best thing for them.
Speaker 3: But Katy Perry Orlando Bloom have ended the rumors, speculation
Speaker 3: and gossip Band have confirmed that they have ended their
Speaker 3: relationship after nine years together. They've been engaged in the
Speaker 3: past six and they do have a daughter together five
Speaker 3: What do I think.
Speaker 1: Somewhere around that time, Yeah, because I think it was
Speaker 1: right around the I remember she was pregnant during the pandemic, yep,
Speaker 1: all right, and she had a Orlando Bloom hoodie on
Speaker 1: We interviewed her on Good Morning America via zoom, and
Speaker 1: I remember she had little faces of Orlando Bloom all
Speaker 1: over her hoodie.
Speaker 2: It was very memorable, all right.
Speaker 1: A joint statement from the rep confirms that, yes, Katie
Speaker 1: and Orlando have been this is their quote, have been
Speaker 1: shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus
Speaker 1: on cope parenting. They will continue to be seen together
Speaker 1: as a family as their shared priority is and always
Speaker 1: will be raising their daughter with love, stability, and mutual respect.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 1: They've been shifting their relationship over the past few months.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The two broke up once before, back in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: but they did get back together and got engaged on
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we walked this walk. It's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough to divorce, to divorce, to separate, and certainly
Speaker 1: to do it in the public eye when especially when
Speaker 1: you have a children.
Speaker 2: I always have children together.
Speaker 3: I was always just rooting for them. They weren't too
Speaker 3: much in the public eye, and they they just put
Speaker 3: themselves out there, but they were fun. Anytime you did
Speaker 3: get a chance to interact with him or her. Wow,
Speaker 3: never with him, but same thing with her. Got to
Speaker 3: interact and they just always seemed solid. Yeah, is the
Speaker 3: thing what in Katie right now? She's it's been a
Speaker 3: tough stretch.
Speaker 2: It's been a tough year.
Speaker 3: But the Blue Origin thing, her album got criticized, didn't
Speaker 3: get the same type of respect reception a breakup.
Speaker 2: That's it's a tough year. It's a tough year.
Speaker 1: But hopefully she will come back stronger and better than ever.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely possible, and I'm rooting for her and
Speaker 1: for Orlando.
Speaker 3: All right, for something for you, folks to take with
Speaker 3: you on this fourth of July, something for you to
Speaker 3: consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Yes, this comes from Mahatma Gandhi Ah with some wise
Speaker 1: sage advice. A man is but the product of his thoughts,
Speaker 1: what he thinks, he becomes. This is such an important
Speaker 1: part of life for me now because we can't control
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but we can interrupt negative thoughts,
Speaker 1: bad thoughts, future casting, all the things our mind tends
Speaker 1: to do sometimes and we create our own suffering. So
Speaker 1: I just like to realize that what you think is
Speaker 1: what you believe usually and then that is kind of
Speaker 1: what you become.
Speaker 2: So you get to decide, all right, So.
Speaker 3: Folks take that with you today. A man is but
Speaker 3: the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes. Also,
Speaker 3: I want to remind you we are putting up this
Speaker 3: week another episode of our Ask Amy and TJ is
Speaker 3: based on the question we got in our Yahoo relationship
Speaker 3: column that you can find on Yahoo dot com just
Speaker 3: click on the life section. But we got a question
Speaker 3: from a young lady who's only calling herself f Robes,
Speaker 3: and we got a lot of comments about her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was another one where thousands of you commented
Speaker 1: on the Yahoo page, which we love. F asked us
Speaker 1: what is it that men are looking for? She says,
Speaker 1: I'm a successful black woman, so why aren't men into me?
Speaker 2: We will talk about.
Speaker 1: Our advice to F, but also talk about some of
Speaker 1: the comments you all left.
Speaker 2: It's a fun, fun, fun episode. We hope you check
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: It should be dropping sometime tomorrow afternoon, but we appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening to us on this fourth of July special
Speaker 1: morning run. We hope you have a wonderful day celebrating
Speaker 1: with your friends and family. I'm Amy roboch and on
Speaker 1: behalf of my partner T. J. Holmes.
Speaker 2: Happy forth, y'all.
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